Chapter 37 - 37: Beer (2)
Building ships required specialized knowledge, lots of money, and a lot of time.
Dwarves, however, were the craftsmen of the century, a race with deep pockets and a long life span.
It's not an exaggeration to say that most of the ship plans in human society right now came from dwarves.
It didn't take long for the dwarves to organize themselves into shipbuilding groups and form the Beer Fleet.
Then, the navies of countries neighboring the dwarves were in an uproar.
"The Dwarves are building sailing ships!"
"What kind of ships are they building? Leave them alone. They must have outsourced it."
At first, navies made light of the news that dwarves were building ships.
Dwarves, a race of earthlings, did not go to sea.
"That's...the number of ships exceeds thirty."
"What, thirty ships?"
